This document discusses research related to mapping gospel communities in Coventry, UK. It outlines objectives to map 2011 UK census data on religion, locations of Christian fellowships, aggregated postcode data of churchgoers, and identify communities where no churchgoers live. The aim is to encourage churches to evaluate their gospel witness and develop a Coventry gospel network. Additional sections discuss potential surveys of churches, congregations, unchurched individuals, and disciples.

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Gospel Community:
Maps and Questions

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Charles Booth,
Social Map of London

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Google Map of
2014 London

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Please pronounce
the words on the left
from
China
Thailand
Japan
Think about the way
the information is
represented
Brazil
Malaysia

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Universal Sign Language
– Get the Message

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The Visualisation can Limit the
Concepts too
Try this one:
MMCCLXVII
– MMCCLXVII

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Coventry, our community
 14th October 2013

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Churches, What Churches?

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Do we have
Gospel Communities?

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What size Gospel
Community?

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Where do we need
Gospel Communities?

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What Culture will we meet?

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Interactive Tool, Look and See

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Lowest Density of Census
Response = Christian

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Census vs Church Attendance

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Aim: To identify communities in
Coventry that lack a Gospel Witness
 Objectives:
1. To Map the 2011 Census responses on Religion
2. To identify and map locations where fellowships of Christians
(Churches) meet
3. To collect postcodes of people attending these Churches
(Churchgoers)
4. To map where Churchgoers live, aggregated by postcode
5. To identify the character and location of communities in
Coventry where no Churchgoers live
6. To encourage Churchgoers to evaluate their Gospel Witness
to their own community
7. To encourage the development of a Coventry Gospel Network

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Inputs and Outputs
 Contributing Churches will need to provide a
simple list of postcodes (one row for each
person attending), with no other personal
data.

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Inputs and Outputs
 They can optionally include a second
column which indicates each Churchgoer’s
level of involvement, for those fellowships
that distinguish members from attendees for
example.

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Extensions
Survey of Church
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https://s3.amazonaws.com/bhpub/edoc/001303826_SUPP.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=1FAF154W9TVZ6M3REZG2
&Expires=2098539482&Signature=gAuP05ZTuNZ%2B2bBuf7JTFqmFpeQ%3D
Survey of Congregations

http://www.lifeway.com/Product/transformational-church-dvd-discussion-guide-P005255385
Survey of Unchurched
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http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Unchurched_Next_Door.html?id=DAjw0BRZ1lAC&redir_esc=y
Survey of Disciples

Transformational Discipleship http://www.lifeway.com/n/Product-Family/Transformational-Discipleship

Waggoner, Brad. The Shape of Faith to Come: Spiritual Formation and the Future of Discipleship
http://www.bivocational.org/BIVO/Books/ShapeOfFaith.pdf

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Church Assesment?
(Rainer)
Score on rankings of seven areas
1. Percent growth in worship attendance last five years
2. Percent in small groups
3. New commitments per attendee (last year)
4. Percent of above actively involved (last year)
5. Percent attending more than once a month with regular
responsibilities in Church
6. Percent attending more than once a month with regular
ministries with people not affiliated with your Church
7. Level of agreement with the statement "we are
consistently hearing reports of changed lives at our
church"

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Transformational Discipleship
Assessment
 Eighty questions repeated to measure progress, eg:
 I expect my Christian friends to challenge me if I make
unwise choices.
 I believe everything I have belongs to God.
 The fruit of the Spirit (love, patience, kindness,
goodness, gentleness, etc.) is evidence of a genuine
relationship with God.
 I am generally a different person in public than I am in
private.
 When I realize that I have a choice between "my way"
and "God's way," I usually choose my way.

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Thank you

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The City of Peace and Reconciliation

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Everyone in Christ has the
ministry of reconciliation
2 Corinthians 5:17-18
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he
is a new creation; the old has gone,
the new has come! All this is from
God, who reconciled us to himself
through Christ and gave us the
ministry of reconciliation:

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We are Christ’s Ambassadors
that God was reconciling the world to
himself in Christ, not counting men’s
sins against them. And he has
committed to us the message of
reconciliation. We are therefore
Christ’s ambassadors, as though
God were making his appeal through
us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf
:Be reconciled to God. 2 Corinthians 5:19-20